{"id":114,"date":"2006-02-26T21:34:30","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T02:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2006-02-26T21:34:30","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T02:34:30","slug":"hillier-willing-to-escort-tim-hortons-kahuna-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Hillier Willing To Escort Tim Horton&#039;s Kahuna To Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the hype surrounding getting a Tim Horton&#8217;s in Afghanistan is growing.  The Ottawa Sun had a poll on it and now General Rick Hillier is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/topics\/news\/oddities\/story.html?id=26f1f9b0-9566-4485-ac54-77bb8a83c82e&#038;k=59063\">speaking about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<table width=\"428\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#bbe5e5\" style=\"width: 428px\"><font size=\"-1\" face=\"arial\">American troops in Afghanistan have access to fast food from Pizza Hut and Burger King, but the Canadians can&#8217;t get fresh Timbits.<\/font><font size=\"-1\" face=\"arial\">Hillier says it would be a big morale-booster to have a coffee shop in Kandahar.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\" face=\"arial\">&#8220;I invite the CEO of Tim Hortons to come with me to Afghanistan and see the powerful implications that would come from that.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\" face=\"arial\">The company said in a statement that it&#8217;s working with the Forces on having its products available in Afghanistan.<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>H\/T to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/soapbox22.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/bz-to-hillier.html\">Blue Blogging Soapbox<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the hype surrounding getting a Tim Horton&#8217;s in Afghanistan is growing. The Ottawa Sun had a poll on it and now General Rick Hillier is speaking about it. American troops in Afghanistan have access to fast food from Pizza Hut and Burger King, but the Canadians can&#8217;t get fresh Timbits.Hillier says it would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}